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  • Glass

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Haunted Hour: An Anthology

    Exploring the Supernatural in Classic Literature

    by Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Noyes, John Masefield, Arthur Guiterman, Margaret Widdemer, Joyce Kilmer, Louis Untermeyer, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Nathan Haskell Dole, Helen Gray Cone0, William Butler Yeats1, Francis Carlin2, Henry W. Longfellow3, Theodosia Garrison4, Anna Hempstead Branch5 ...
    The Haunted Hour: An Anthology is an evocative exploration of supernatural themes and ghostly encounters, capturing a spectrum of literary styles from romantic to gothic. This collection brings to life the pervasive allure of the uncanny through richly textured narratives and haunting poems that reflect on the mystery of the spiritual world. Each selection contributes to the anthology's ... Read more

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  • The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by John S. Garrison ...
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    by John Jay Chapman ...
    William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery ... Read more

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  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Thy Will Be Done

    George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

    by John Garrison Marks ...
    How should we remember George Washington’s entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington’s ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his fellow founders, yet he was the only one of them to emancipate the people he held in bondage. Since his death, Americans have grappled with this ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • John Brown: 1800-1859: A Biography After Fifty Years

    by Oswald Garrison Villard ...
    "The greatest American historical biography yet written." - Merrill D. Peterson, in John Brown: The Legend Revisited (2004)"Villard captured the volatile contest between fact and interpretation that plagues every student of Brown...an impressively measured and thoughtful biography." -John Brown Still Lives (2011)"Villard...pitilessly expose[d] Brown's savagery at Pottawatomie...praise[d] his ... Read more

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    Shakespeare and the Afterlife

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antifa Lit Journal, Volume 1: What if We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht?

    Antifa Lit Journal, #1

    by Chrys Gorman, Rachel A. Rosen, Casey Aimer, Kent Karnofski, Benjamin Gorman, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Julia Figliotti, A.M. Pennyfeather, Brian U. Garrison, Christopher Scott Thompson, Trixie Belka, Kurt Newton, Stephanie Carrier-Boodram, J. L. Henker, Madeline White, M. K. Martin, Desiree Batiste, Rick M. Cook, Karen Eisenbrey, John Slovacek, Jes Honard ...
    Series Book 1 - Antifa Lit Journal
    We are living through a fascist uprising. Do not wait for fascists to call themselves fascists. They are ascendent, and we have to learn how to fight back. Authors and poets have always spearheaded efforts to articulate danger and envision a better future. In the Antifa Lit Journal, these talented writers will tug at your heartstrings, draw you to take action, and help you find hope. Volume 1 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global and Digital Governance Crossroads

    Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization

    Edited by Preeti Shroff-Mehta, Jagdish.N Sheth, John Garrison, Shailendra Raj Mehta ...
    This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public–corporate–social–community–faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world. It studies human, cultural, societal, institutional interactions and challenges in a digitally enabled world, especially in the context of post-crisis resilience and agility. Every global crisis forces societies and nations to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, John Garrison ...
    Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications

    Edited by Robert Osiander, M. Ann Garrison Darrin, John L. Champion ...
    The promise of MEMS for aerospace applications has been germinating for years, and current advances bring the field to the very cusp of fruition. Reliability is chief among the challenges limiting the deployment of MEMS technologies in space, as the requirement of zero failure during the mission is quite stringent for this burgeoning field. MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications ... Read more

    $325.00 USD